How do you go from a 75% discount to 50%?

[RockyVega]

I bought this game last year and unfortunately had to refund it for financial reasons. Upon looking at my order history, I noticed I paid $10 for the base game cause it had a 75% discount.

Now it's only a 50% discount 6 months later? Gotta be joking right now.

[conrado.lacerda]

And what's the price now?

Edit: looking at the price history on steamdb, it seems that back then you paid the lowest price that the game ever had...

[RockyVega]

Originally posted by conrado.lacerda:

And what's the price now?

Edit: looking at the price history on steamdb, it seems that back then you paid the lowest price that the game ever had...

Yeah I just don't get how they backpedal like this or if it's something Steam decides. If it was $10 before, it should be $10 again.

[conrado.lacerda]

Given the fact that this 75% discount happened only once in the last two years, I imagine that it was a very special sale unlikely to repeat so soon...

Anyway, I paid $20 about a year ago or so and I think the game is worth that much (if that's your type of game).

Good luck!

[RockyVega]

Originally posted by conrado.lacerda:

Given the fact that this 75% discount happened only once in the last two years, I imagine that it was a very special sale unlikely to repeat so soon...

Anyway, I paid $20 about a year ago or so and I think the game is worth that much (if that's your type of game).

Good luck!

I agree. Even by looking at gameplay I can tell it's worth every penny (even full price maybe). Was just a bit annoyed that the sale price went back up.

[Make]

Originally posted by RockyVega:

Originally posted by conrado.lacerda:

And what's the price now?

Edit: looking at the price history on steamdb, it seems that back then you paid the lowest price that the game ever had...

Yeah I just don't get how they backpedal like this or if it's something Steam decides. If it was $10 before, it should be $10 again.

It's up to each publisher to decide at what price or at what discount they want to sell games. Steam (Valve) doesn't decide it for other devs/pubs. They do provide information for regional pricing, which most big devs/pubs seem it ignore these days:
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/pricing
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/discounts

It's not unusual for games to have strong discounts and then reverting back to weaker discounts. Another trend I've seen is that Japanese games tend to have higher prices than western "AAA" games and that Japanese games often lack "GOTY" editions that include all DLC.

To purchase Tales of Arise with all DLC, you would have to spend around $127.80 on sale (normal price around $195). Whereas Far Cry 6 that was released in the same year (2021), you can buy the game + DLC for 30 bucks on sale (normal price 119.99):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2369390/Far_Cry_6/